TIK Tak On Tuesday, he made good on his threats and filed a lawsuit in D.C. court. with the intent to block a US law that could force a popular app to be banned throughout the country.

The company warned that it would sue in April, after The US Congress approved this law it makes ByteDanceChinese technology conglomerate, sell your work to a social network in a North American country or face a ban on activities.

This requirement dictates:

Congress took the unprecedented step of expressly designating and prohibiting TIK Tak– An active online forum for discussion and protected expression used by 170 million Americans to create, share and watch videos online.

The company claims that the “Protecting Americans from Apps Controlled by Foreign Adversaries Act” would force it to shut down TIK Tak in the country until January 19, 2025 this is “extraordinary and unconstitutional assertion of power”.

This became known on April 24. ByteDance he had 270 days to find an investor from a country that is not a “foreign enemy” sell him the company, but he refused to do so.

The legal document adds that if the law is followed the consequences would be “fundamentally inconsistent with the (US) Constitution’s commitments to freedom of expression and individual liberty”.

He therefore asks the court to enter a declaratory judgment that This law violates the US Constitutionan order restraining the Attorney General from enforcing it, ruling in his favor, and granting him “any other appropriate relief.”